Nutrition & Wellness
From learning about the health benefits of turmeric to staying up-to-date with the latest superfood trends, discover the best diet tips to improve your health.
Organic farming is more profitable, but farmers don’t switch
A study done earlier this year found that organic food was healthier than pesticide grown food—if you eat only organic it’s like adding a one or two more servings of fruits or vegetables per day. So organic food is better for consumers. And it’s better for farmers too. It has been proven that Read More...
Using dung beetles for food safety
Every few years there is an E. coli outbreak—many get sick and maybe one or two die. Most of these outbreaks have been traced to animal droppings on plants that occurred while they were still at the farm. Now researchers have come up with an idea to use dung beetles to minimize E. coli outbreaks. Read More...
Finally, an easy way to find out what’s in your food
So what’s in the food you eat? How much sugar is in that cookie? Which foods contain arsenic? The Environmental Working Group spent 3 years to create a database of 80,000 products with all their ingredients. Foods get a score of 1 through 10 (1 is the best) based on how well they perform in three Read More...
Diet for a healthy planet
One of the prevailing problems with our health system if how often doctors prescribe drugs that treat symptoms instead of finding the root cause of the problem. And often, the problem causing your health to decline is diet and exercise—or lack there of. The Mediterranean Diet is full of fish, Read More...
Sustainable seafood gains popularity
Almost 30 percent of the world’s oceans are overfished, but sustainable fishing practices are on the rise. MSC. The newly released annual report from the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC), which assesses and certifies fisheries for sustainability, indicates that there are more MSC certified Read More...
Can sound vibrations replace pesticides?
Researchers in Italy are testing unique ways to combat pests that don’t include chemicals—and they’re going way beyond organic alternatives. They’re experimenting with vibration and pheromones as a sustainable alternative to detrimental chemical pesticides. The vibrations and pheromones are Read More...
Fish farms on great lakes could restore local fisheries
Despite being surrounded by 20 percent of the world’s fresh water supply, fish farms are rare in Michigan. But with a ballooning global population expected to top 9.6 billion by 2050, expanding fish farms in The Great Lakes State could feed billions and be a lucrative business. Wild fish Read More...
This app is designed to minimize food waste
In the US we waste about 133 billion pounds of food each year. A new app called PareUp connects frugal grocery shoppers with food that is about to be thrown in the trash. Businesses post on the PareUp app foods that are discounted because they are approaching their sell-by date. Then consumers look Read More...
This process keeps the food you have to throw away out of the landfill
If you are unable to eat all the vegetables you buy on PareUp before they go bad, but don’t want to throw them away, there might be a solution coming. Italian scientists are developing a process the will make plastic out of biowaste. The process creates a cellophane-like material out of Read More...
Edible food containers will minimize packaging waste
Food packaging is a huge waste. Thankfully, David Edwards, Harvard University Professor and edible food packaging designer, has come up with an answer that would make the plastic bag redundant. His solution, called the WikiPearl, is an edible skin that can be wrapped around food to prevent Read More...